Addictionary: A Website for Made Up Words

1. Daniel Kim
   November 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am

   I just submitted “flatulence”

   noun, A collective noun describing a group of politicians.

   Example usage:
   “Legislation could not be passed because congress did not have a sufficient flatulence to make a quorum.”

2. Rocky Rook
   November 26th, 2008 at 9:40 am

   That is awesome! That gave me a few good sniggles.

3. Crispin
   November 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am

   Does anyone remember Rich Hall’s Sniglets? People have probably been making up words since they started speaking and told which words they could use, but this seems like some sort of violation of his legal rights. I guess you can’t copyright something like this though… Also, there is no mention of the word sniglet on their site which I suppose is fitting since they’re ripping off his concept.

4. xadrian
   November 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am

   @Crispin - that’s the first thing I thought of. Maybe one of us should put in a word.

   Sniglitigation - When Rick Hall sues your ass for stealing his idea.

5. Erin Z
   November 26th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

   Oh my word! Just the other day I was wishing for a site like this. I want a word to describe what happens when you stare at or say a word out loud for so long that is fails to look or sound like that word any longer!

6. Ron Moses
   November 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

   Yeah, these were a lot funnier back when they were called Sniglets. Oh wait, no they weren’t.

7. Erin
   November 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

   In high school, my friends and I had three Sniglets we were going to submit, but didn’t…

   escapause - the number of steps you let pass before getting on an escalator behind a stranger

   urinosecond - the moment it takes to begin peeing after getting into position

   somniprints - the indentations and impressions left on one’s body after sleeping against a textured surface

8. DOJ
   November 27th, 2008 at 11:21 am

   this will be a great resource for me
   thanks

9. vero4902
   November 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

   How cool!

10. Matt
    December 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Don’t forget Douglas Adams and John Lloyd’s The Meaning of Liff, which took town names and used them to mean stuff like this.
    http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

11. Jocelyn Martin
    January 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    HI HOW ARE YOU I LIKE THESE ARE SO GOOD LIE WOW HAHAHA IM FUNNY

12. Vicky
    April 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    deleriated…. when you hear voices and fragments of songs in your head and get really strange visuals

13. Jenna
    May 27th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Koolioawesome!

    it means Coolio and Awesome with a K
    search it on youtube
    i made a video about it haha

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